With 0.0 jobs for every working resident, most of Hall Summit works elsewhere
Hall Summit has 1 jobs for 90 working residents. Hardly any work in Hall Summit itself; outside it, Coushatta draws the most (24%, 11 miles). Working residents average 25 minutes each way, about the same as across Louisiana.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Hall Summit: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 90 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 1 people come in from elsewhere.
About 170 people are in Hall Summit on a workday afternoon, 35% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Hall Summit: the destinations
Where Hall Summit clocks in
24% of workers
16% of workers
4% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Services make up most of the work in Hall Summit
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hall Summit, 2013 → 2023: 173 → 1. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Hall Summit’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Hall Summit takes about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hall Summit workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 104 commuters (the 6% who work from home are left out). Across Louisiana: 85% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
How many miles Hall Summit commutes
About 17% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Hall Summit: questions
What is the poverty rate in Hall Summit?
15.8%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hall Summit?
25 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hall Summit work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Coushatta (24%, 11 mi), Shreveport (16%, 35 mi), Bossier City (4%, 32 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Hall Summit without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hall Summit, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hall Summit
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.